#47: Ben

A while back I was drawing portraits of different kinds of gamers, and one of the kids in the Dungeons and Dragons club offered to pose for a "power-gamer" or "min-maxer" piece. Ben is a gifted mathematician, and he liked to use his math superpowers to create impossibly broken characters just for fun. He even created equations specifically to help him calculate skills, so I used them in the whirlwind of words surrounding him.

I never finished the original gamer drawing, but recently his mother wanted a portrait so I returned to it. I'm so glad she asked, because I love the finished product.

Just like everything else on my site, this is all hand drawn - no filtered photos, no live paint or live trace funny business. Just a lot of little marks made with my Apple Pencil in Adobe Draw and my Wacom Cintiq in Adobe Illustrator. Powered by Adobe Portfolio